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  • 2018-05-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Paul Ryan Nominate Joel Osteen for House Chaplain? (en)
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  • Shortly after outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan fired House Chaplain Patrick Conroy in a closed-door meeting at the end of April 2018, a rumor that the House Speaker had nominated televangelist Joel Osteen as his replacement started to spread online: Paul Ryan did not nominate Joel Osteen to be the new House Chaplain. This rumor originated with a satirical post on the message board Democratic Underground: The author of this post, a user identified as MineralMan, wrote in the comments that the evil grin emoticon included at the bottom of the post indicated that the text was satirical. Forum users also compared the text to articles on the Borowitz Report, a well-known satirical blog published in the New Yorker: (en)
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